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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

inflated. fictitious or speculative values,
but sound, actual values are steadily on
the increase, keeping pace with pOpula-
ton and demand. The building up of
so many suburban manufacturing towns
is only matter of congratulatiOn, as
they are part of the city and will con-
tribute to its greatness. The convey
ances of real estate for this year will
approximate $50, 100000, a gain of
nearly S25,O00,000 over last year.
While the actual figures for the years
building will about equal those of last
year, this fact is a matter of cOnsidera
BILE cOngratulation. The amounts eX-
pended last year were variOusly esti-
mated at from 81, 100000 to S13,000,000,
very large proportion of which went
into great Office buildings. At that
time, the buildings exceeded tie de-
mand and were built with that idea, as
prOvidential care of the future; but
the demand overlook them this year and
nearly as many more were erected.
showing that is remarkable. This years
building was largely confined to dwell
ingS, the number of which exceeded
last year by nearly three hundr d,
showing healthy increase and in the
right direction. There was also eX-
pended, this year, a vast sum on subur-
ban buildings. factories and mills, as
well as residences, which did not pass
through the building inspector office
and are not, therefore, of record. The
building of 1887 is therefore even more
satisfactory than that of last year, be-
cause it equaled il and did not exceed
the demand, leaving next year to stand
on its merits.
The records of the corporate body of
Minneapolis show 1887 to have been the
most remarkable year in its history.
| The total expenses for the year were
| 81. 467 $3.50 as compared with S2,541,-
| 714.63 for 1856, and Sl.S27. 370.S5 for 1856.
| The large excess, as the GLOBE has
| shO wn, was not due to extravaganza,
| but was the result of the great public
| Improvements inaugurated and COM
| pleted. The water works system has
been extended and improved, and the
| department of streets and sidewalks
has done magnificent work. Curbs,
| cutters and sewers have been extended
| in every direction. The fire and police
| departments have been increased and
improved at considerable expense, and
the work of the health department has
! peer greatly improved ala EXTENDED.
AS natural result of the increased city
territory, and the consequent increase
of aldermen and other officials, the run
ming expenses have been much larger
| but have not exceeded the wants of the
municipality economically admins
tered.
| 80
Socially considered the city is in bet
ter condition than last year. Labor has
| received a fair remuneration and the
| wheels of commerce have been clOgged
| by no strikes. The people, as a rule,
are prosperous, contented and happy.
Minneapolis has no desire to invite a
| surplus of the labor market by posing
as the Mecca of workmen, but is doing
fairly well. There is nothing to indi-
cate during the year that the rich are
growing richer and the poor poorer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
" men OF MINNEAPOLIS"
Some of the Good Fellows Who Have
Earned That Distinction
Of Late.
Some of Their Little Peculiarities and
Personal F0ibles Mentioned
in Lighter Strain.
Some Paragraphs That Will "Put de
Gang 0n"---The Life Of Stiff
Gambler Is Tough.

Among the many "men of Minneapo-
lis'' there are some who gain distinction
through peculiaritles, prominence in
business or social circles, or who attain
popularity even though their station in
life be not exalted, as the world goes.
Perhaps generosity is the trait, perhaps
it is wit, maybe geniality. AT any rate,
there are in Minneapolis, as in other
cities, examples of men who rush, or
who are rather rushed, into distinction
because of some quality. which
all do not possess. That en-
Hart in one of his political TRADES
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
MINNEAPOLIS

work. He called at the postoffice to get
his mail and a accidentally stepped on
giZed and sold him a bill of goods, and
went on the street just in time to stop
runaway horse. The young lady in the
carriage introduced him to her father as
her "preserver," and he sold another
bin of goods to the richest merchant in
the city. He next visited a charity fair
and was triumphantly voted the hand
soonest man in town, and was presented
with a crazy-Quilt that would not cover
baby's cot. After eating dinner, and
winning a foot, race he caught way
freight just as the village band had
.'caught on" and attempted to serenade
him
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

long will the steady current
from east to west continue. The old
world will continue to pour its surplus
into the new, and the East into the West,
seeking the natural equilibrium. How
long will it be until the myriad broad
acres of the Northwest are as thlckly
populated as the shires of England?
Just that long will Minneapolis hold
sway. Just that long will it be one of
the chief distributing points from the
continent to the Northwest, the develop
ment of which has just fairly begun.
The time will come when wealth rolling
westward toward Minneapolis Will be
like the gathering SNOWFALL; when New
York will have reached its growth;
when Chicago will lose its present func-
tons of supplying its present territory,
and when Northwestern tribute will end
at Minneapolis. When that ends, the
great territories will have become popu-
lous states and the Twin Cities the
metropolitan center of an evenly bal
anced continent. Another cycle will be
complete.
The record of Minneapolis for the
past year is a chestnut. 1t is the same
old chestnut-a marvellous overstepping
of anything that preceded it, in the
essential details. In some particulars
the advancement has been greater and
in others less, but in all it has been
great. In nothing has there been in
OcuouS deSuetude. In the three great
features of Minneapolis life, real estate,
milling and manufacturing, the growth
is phenomenal. Of late years it has
become necessary to include two addi-
tional features, jobbing and banking.
which have reached such proportions
that, once despaired of, they now over
Shad ow the city'S characteristic indus
tries. 1t is only within the past few
years that jobbing has assumed a po-
sitiOn in which it could assert
itself. Not until it reached the fig
ure Of S20,000,0 600, four years ago, did it
attract public notice, but at the end of
the next year it had gained so per cent.
and leaped at once into one of the lead
ing features of the city's greatness.
The increase has been steady and solid
and the incomplete figures for this year
will bring up total. exclusive of -four
and lumber, not far from S75,000,000
Manufacturing has kept even pace,
taking on, this year. creator stride
than ever experienced before. This
does not include the flour milling in
l6rSSl, WHICH eIluS one Ol llle UlOSI pros
porous years In its history. 1t may not
sound we'll to the farmer, but the mills
are getting their wheat at low price
and grinding it profitably, and it is the
common feeling that 1855 will be the
great milling year of Minneapolis.
LAUNDERING did not so well. Low water
and delayed logs gave short saving sea-
son. while disastrous fire swept the
mill district; but prices are fair and
the prospects for heavy log cut good,
so the lumbermen confidently look to the
future. Banking has exceeded all
proportions. Minneapolis has now
eighteen banks with capital of over
$4,000, 900, and the clearings for 1887 will
reach the enormous total of $500. 000, 900,
an increase Of over II per cent as COM
pared with last year. Real estate was
never better. There is no boom and nc
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
ONLY FROM THE OUTSIDE.
1t Looks Like Christmas Except
Inside of POcketbooks.
Hartford Post.

Hartford Post.
1t would have been sin the gloaming,"
only it was winter time, and 1.-The
cleaning" don't work well when the
thermometer is neighbOring with zero.
They two the same two, by the way),
were strolling down the walk looking in
at the show windows?"
sit looks real Christmas like and
CHEEKY, doesn't it, GeOrge?'
Eyes, it does, from the outside. But,
inside, you know, it is an array of large
figures to match small pOcketbook.
And then they walked on in silence,
she wondering whether he intended to
make her much of Christmas present
or not.
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The Festive Season.

Lowell Citizen.
Johnson-Your brother is spending
his winter in Florida, believe. Health
bad?
Jackson-He's there for economy, not
health.
Johnson-Economy?
Jackson-YeS. He calculated that
the saving in coal and Christmas pres
ents would pay railroad fare both ways
and put money in his pocket.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

tune my Tyre to the praises of Mime
apOlis. ! sing the Flour City, imperial
mistress of that boundless empire where
wheat is king, and joint sovereign of
the Northwestern wonderland, where
the enterprise of the day is the Eastern
marvel Of the year. The greatest city of
her age in the world. Each new year
is an added height from which greater
possibilities are displayed.
For hundreds Of year the limits of
the old world were bounded on the
west by the Strait of Gibraltar. Every
march of improvement was eastward.
Every dream of empire was ilIumined
by shining finger directed toward the
Orient. Every wild idea of power, of
riches, of glory, of fame, shaped its
course toward the East. When the seat
of empire was in imperial Rome the
march of the cOnQueror was to the East.
The diamonds of Galconda and the
ingOts of the Indies were in the
East. The learning of Arabia
and the mysteries of Egypt were
in the East. Eastward the Annals sought
their new ValhallO, and eastward the
Christian hosts poured for the conquest
of the Holy City. The West was the
0lOA0 O1Ah1AOhAs Inv BA44oAo VI AAN1
cules bounded the possibilities of men,,
and even the British isles were lost in
the fogs of the western ocean. No am
bitiOn was born to the heart of aspiring
men but was accompanied by the whis-
pering voice: ITO the East" Even
the restless, indOmitable will of Column
bus, which opened the gateway of the
pillars of Hercules and marked the path
toward land greater than Imagination
had then pictured, was turned toward
the East, and but seeking the most di-
rect course thither. But once the gates
were opened, the course of empire
changed. The thoughts, desires and
ambitions of men kept pace. Enter
prise and ambition, fame and renoWn,
gold and jewels, even the fountain of
life itself, lay to the west. Through the
pillars of Hercules was the royal road
to greatness. A cycle of time was com
plete.
In the new era, the scene is the same,
but different. Westward the cOu rse of
empire takes its way. The finger Of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

not altogether successful in this and
other reform movements, the credit, at
least, for moving for the correction OF
some of the peculiar methods OF the
with vague suspicious should be ac-
corded him. In appearance he looks as
though he had a prediction to hair
dye, but he hasn't.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
Wouldn't Hang Up His Stocking

Elmira Gazette.
"Are you going to hang up your stock
ing this year?" asked one young man of
another.
mo. am not" was the short, sharp
reply.
well. you needn't be so cranky about
it." was the answer.
.'Well, / have good reason to be
cranky" was the answer. ITO ask a
man who hung up his Overcoat last sum-
mer and hasn't got it out yet if he is go
ing TO hang up his stocking is positive
insult. don't like the word at all. Do
you think am going barefooted?"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

against DelllOc-
racy and its
representatives
once said of
Mayor Ames.
"I'll admit he's
a good fellow.
Do you know
who's the good
fellows full
brother i S !?
Well, he's a
d a m p h oOl."
Perhaps, Mr..
Hart was right
from a dollars
and cents with
interest-add e d
point of view.
Perh3nS he was
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
TWENTY YEARS AGO.

In 1867 Minneapolis had board of trade, Or
ganized soon after the city took on her municipal
dignity by securing city charter. Or rather, it
was "high-joint'' affair between the cities OF
Minneapolis and St. Anthony foreshad-owlng
of the closer municipal union which was con-
summated five years later when the two cities
were joined together under one name e. The presl
E. Flandrau. now of ST. Paul, and it's secretary
Frank P. Sweet who died several years ago, but
whose family still live in Minneapolis This board
of trade was not by any means a purely orna-
mental affair, but strove to make itself useful in
multifarious ways in its small day and genera
ton, as is evidenced by the frequent communi-
cations which it sent to the city council, on all
possible questions of public utility: 1t endeav-
Ored to restrain the tendency to high taxation
figured for government appropriations for bring
ing the head of navigation to the foot OF ST.
Anthony Falls-thus making extremes meet pro
bono publicO. This institution made the first re.
corded suggestion for boulevarding the streets OF
Minneapolis and st. Anthony, and to it we are no
doubt largely indebted for the beautiful streets of
the city as it is seen to-day This board OF trade
has left an almost forgotten statement OF the
industrial status of the two communities
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

shaved me for a year for nothing
wouldn't yOu?''
Eyes SIR"
"Well, 1 lose, and I'll just shave you
for year and Won't charge you cent
for ito
But the barber quit; that is to say, he
6ssltated , ABOUT allowing NJ reckless in
the bet was declared draw, to the in
tense dissatisfaction of the spectators,
who wanted to see the affair to a finish,
Of course.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

Mans finger touched her and she woks
TO life. to action and to fame,
UpTearing from the wastes and woods
A city with glorious name.
Nor fate, nor chance could mar the course
That she has followed-till to-day,
Enthroned upon the rivers bank,
The river sings Of her broad sway.
in peaceful industry and art --.
In kindly acts of loving deeds
In moving to one noble race
By banishing old foolish creeds,
And growing with the city's growth,
Instinctwith energy and power,
A people famed for enterprise
Their energy their richest dover.
Behold her, then, this queenly town,
This year and next and for all time,
Cleaving her way TO spread her bounds,
And shedding lustre DER this CLINE.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

x! .Ef7NENF. Wnen sUlne SUD
ject is preached in which he takes
an interest. He is favorite with
newspaper men, and, if his adj
dress before the Press club is to be
taken as an Indication, entertains a
reciprocal feeling of respect. When he
became member of the board of edu-
cation he opposed the star chamber ses-
sions, saying that he believed the bust
ness of the city should be transacted
openly and above board. While he was
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
CHARLIE PILLSBURY

is a good trimmer.
Don't think from
this expression
that he works at
any trade, for he's
a jack of all trades.
He seems to take
an interest in poll
tics for the fun of
the thing, doncher-
know, and is gen.
, orally with the
game. He has got
several cid scores
to pay off, and
when next Election
comes will proba-
bly, be on hand or
thereabOutS.a as his
fri end Loren
Fletcher will prob
bly, find out. He
is a practical
miller, only he has
not practiced much
of late. A funny
incident in his ca
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

view accorded him by a weak-minded
reporter of New York daily at Sara
toga hotel last year. Charles A. made
the usual bluff which all the local re-
porters know how to take without wink
ing, and the journalist from the East
wrote him up as ''simple miller who
had made some money through force of
MI 20. y
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
A PUBLIC OBLIGATION.
How Shall We Care for the City's
Needy Poor?
A RIGHT AND WRONG WAY.
What Experience Has Indo d---The
Churches May Do Harm by
Interfering.

HE poor are always
with you" is a pro-
verbal saying, and
the way in which
they are managed
tends to increase
rather than dimin-
ish their number.
All over this wide
land and from all
foreign lands comes
up the cry annual-
ly: "What shall be
done with them?''
The question of the
unfortunate poor OIL
to-day is one of the
greatest now I'M
der consideration.
1t is not dishonora-
BILE to be poor, but it
is dishonorable to
beg, for indiscrlm-
mate giving multi
plies the unworthy
apple ants. The
fewer officials as
signed to this work
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
OSCAR THE TAILOR.

Very few
people u n
derstand or
now tn g
identity of
this interest
ing individ-
a a l VIII o
''keeps his
name before
the public"
through the
medium of
the billpost-
er'S arts and
the ecce n
tricities of
the editor of
the Opera
house pro-
e L a IN m e .
This faSci-
nat ing in
divdual was
born some
time during
the present
century, and
n - ~ -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

now engaged in backing the Star-NeWS

against the Jour-
nal in a circula-
ting race on
paper, and looks
the winner. Since
his return from
st. Paul he has
curbed his ten
dency to moral
ize and denounce,
hence his per-
sonal popularity
has considerably
increa sed. His
latest achieve
.ment has been to
call the bluff of
Osgoodby bellig-
erents with a
GOODNESS that
must have cooled
their ardor some
wha t. Mr.. Shaw
does not pride
himself upon his
manly beauty,
but he attains the
>object in view
with the same
exactness that is
supposed to be a
characteristic of
a certain house
hold pest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
THE TWO CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Chicago News.

Chicago News.
Alice Ito clerk)-Il Charley Ito clerk)-
don't know anything don't know anything
about such articles, about having such
but j want nice things, but l want a
Christmas present for Christmas present for
q young gentleman. a young lady.
Clerk - Yes, Miss. Clerk-How would
Well, we have a SUI you like pair Of en-
perb lot of ties in all broidered hose at RI
Shades, ranging from Charley - W<n'
rs cents to 50 apiece. suppose .ncvil do:
Alice - You may wrap I'm I'm
give me a light blue,
one with pink d}sIls for
as cents,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

how to COOK fish, you VIII ind IN MIN q
person of rare Intelligence, who will
always take the opposite side for the
graduate of Oxford, but doesn't mem
ton the fact more than FIVE or six times
day.
wears a fur vest and says 'Oh. phshaw"
when Won mention the fact that the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
COMMERCE,

COMMERCE.
The head of navigation of the Missis-
sippi river is here. Steamers ascend to
the falls.
Congressional appropriations have
been made for dam and lock below the
falls to improve navigation to the falls.
RAILROADS.
From Minneapolis railroads in actual
operation diverge to the north, west
south and east.
We have direct and unbroken railroad
connection with all points, this being
the railroad center of the state.
PROTECTED RAILROADS.
Additional railroads are projected to
connect Minneapolis with Lake Super
iOr and st. Louis. Within one year we
shall have direct connection with st.
Louis and the South and East, with all
southern cities, and with Philadelphia,
New York. Boston and Washington, in
dependent of roads now through Mill
waukee and Chicago.
Minneapolis can now ship manufact-
ured goods, flour, ETC., to all Atlantic
ports via New Orleans; or land flour,
ETC., in Northern Atlantic ports by rail
without breaking bulk.
Trusting the above statistics will be
found available and thanking you for
your notice of our city, have the honor
to be, sir, your Obedient servant,
FRANCIS P. SWEET.
Accompanying this communication
there is another document prepared by
Secretary Sweet for the examination of
the then city council. 1t is dated one
year later, or Oct. Is, 1869. setting forth
the fact that he had been engaged by the
board of education in taking the school
census of the city. and that as a mere
flyer he determined to consume one
months time and take the census of the
entire city while he was about it. This
he had done and found the grand total
of population of the city to be 13,0S9.
For this work he asks the city to add
SIS to So he had received from the
board of education, and thus give him
month of patient labor"
There is no doubt but Mr.. Sweet in
these two documents felt the importance
of making as good a showing as posi-
bic for the city at that time. Old set
tiers remember him as a careful and
pains-taking gentleman, whS believed
in the infinite possibilities of the city,
and who struggled in his limited
sphere to mac It what it has since be-
come.
lie facts are valuable as the result of
tile first-careful and pains-taking effort
to giVeNhe world the exact facts and
figures 81 the city that has since sprung
into notice as one of the phenomenal
manufacturing and commercial centers
Of TIE weird.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

SStAR TIE TAlLONS came to
Minneapolis in eighteen hundred and
frOze to death. His real name is E. J. Rose
which, by any other name, might smell
as sweet. He is cartoonist who once
worked on Harper's Weekly and never
recovered.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

of immigration
and the roll of
fortunes whe ell
are toward the
Occident. Arc und
the world and
back toward the
beginning, t h e
food of pro gress
and civilization
steadily pours,
and when it shall
have circum-
scribed the globe
and readjuSted it
self, cycle
will be complete.
But for us it has
just begun, and
the centuries to
come must mark
its progress. Min
neapolis and St.
Paul are the pill
lars of Hercules
to the greatWest.
They are the gate
way to the fu-
ture great section
of America that
is now claiming
its turn as the
home of the never
quiet center of
power. They are
the entrance to
the prom is c d
land of the golden
Northwest, and
whether it is the
flow of growth
passing in on the
ebb of products
passing out, Min
neapolis, like the
larded measure
of Cassinl, will
retain her share.
y X
There Is no
bound to the pos
Sibilities of the
future. So long
as the natural in
crease of the
earth exceeds de-
population, S c
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

few, came to Min
neapolis during the
epoch in which
Count de Billie Nee
han, now the Irish
justice at Merriam
Junction, resigned.
Bringing with him,
as he did, an I'M
furnished reputation
| and several dollars,
! he at once sprang
into the popularity
which he has since
maintained at some
expense to himself.
He Is a lineal de-
scendant from Will
lam the COnquerer,
las Old Ben Cole
swOuld tell you if he
was alive. A poet,
1 philosopher and a
I man who knows
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

would result in a resort to lynch law.
He is a reformed insurance agent, and
is trying to do the best he knows how,
so he should be passed over gently and
his faults forgotten, if he has any.
IF E. S. CoRsER
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

SnOulu dbleilu d lciUdlc !
ton the cha nee S are tn
the univer sal cCnme
of the fair delegat
would be "what a funny
little man." While Mr..
Cerser is gifted with a
certain sense of humOr,
those who have had bust
dealings with him have
not noticed any tend
ency to hilarity on his
part when it comes to
the sale or purchase of
real estate. His knowl-
edge of municipal affairs
enables him to keep
cases on the doings of
the aldermen in the way
of public Improvements,
and his voice is Occa-
sionally heard in sem
phatic protest" when tn